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Cover image for post Pretty Hurts, Beauty Wounds, Perfection Kills, by planomania
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planomania in Poetry & Free Verse

Pretty Hurts, Beauty Wounds, Perfection Kills

In beauty pageants since the age of five

She diets to keep her figure right.

Without fail, she wins each contest

Looking nice and thin, in a skin tight dress.

A smile on her face, once again she's won first place.

She's beauty, she's grace

She's Miss United States!

Thinner than she's ever been

Finally having the ultimate win.

How hard she's trained, the world now knows her name.

Her diet payed off

The diet that consisted of pills, and eating small meals.

First it was one to get the job done.

Then two worked better and the dizziness had begun.

Somehow it became three, and hallucinations she began to see.

In the end, it was four.

Police come breaking down her door

There she was on the bathroom floor

Bottle in hand and nothing more.